Worry is growing that Muslim women studying at British universities are the focus of extremists’ efforts at radicalization, the BBC reports. Shaista Gohir, head of the Muslim Women’s Network UK, told the BBC that she had found “ample anecdotal evidence” in her work “to suggest a growing problem of women being drawn into violent extremism.” The report recounts the experience of two young women who were radicalized as students, including one who was said to have dreamed of becoming the first British female suicide bomber. “It made me think violence was acceptable. It made me want to become a suicide bomber,” she told the BBC. She has since renounced such views. The vice president of the Federation of Student Islamic Societies told the BBC that it takes concerns of extremism “very seriously,” but that “there is no evidence to suggest there is radicalization on campuses.”


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